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Working in nursing has never been more demanding. As an RN in BC for over a decade, I’ve witnessed the weight nurses carry, especially through the pandemic, and how often that burden goes unspoken. In that time, I've worked on the med-surg floors, long-term care, and more. I believe that nursing is a fundamental part of my story, and is why I continue to hold a practising RN license with BCCNM. I also believe strongly that there is a lot of overlap between nursing and counselling, and that many nurses are counsellors, even if they don't realize it. It's visible in how much a kind word, a smile, or a touch on the hand by the bedside can impact a patient's life and their course of care.
From an affirmative, trauma-informed foundation, I offer a safe, person-centred environment where nurses can unpack accumulated strain, name the erosion of purpose, and explore the guilt that bites when their values clash with their work without fear of judgement or a lack of understanding from their counsellor.
Together, let’s build a counselling plan rooted in dignity, not platitudes, and tailored to your lived experience. I want to walk alongside you in your journey. Whether you’re navigating traumatic experiences, moral distress, anxiety, burnout, or whatever is pressing for you, we will work toward rediscovering meaning, restoring your agency, and strengthening the voice that advocates for you and the life you want. When you feel the call toward change or even career transition, I want to support you through grief, clarify direction, and movement toward a life that feels aligned with your values rather than drained by them.
Counselling for Nurses
Working for the BC Ambulance Service remains one of the things I am most proud of in my life. Those experiences I had helped lead me to the path I am on now as a counsellor. My time as a paramedic taught me that being a paramedic demands immediacy, decisiveness, and a capacity to witness what most people never see, and what most people hopefully never have to see, yet the cost is often borne in silence by these courageous individuals who put on the uniform.
As a trauma-informed counsellor with this lived experience, I offer a space where paramedics can lay down the weight of critical incidents, cumulative stress, and the moments that stick with them long after the call has ended. Here, you don’t have to minimise what you’ve seen or justify why it still echoes. I’ve heard much too often that many paramedics don’t want to talk to a counsellor because they believe the counsellor won’t get it, or that they’ll traumatize the counsellor by speaking of their experience. That’s part of why I went down this path, to offer a place where you know that I’ll be able to hear it and hold space for you without flinching or turning away.
Together let’s craft a counselling approach grounded in dignity and psychological safety that is personalized for you and your lived experience, tuned to the realities of shift work, exposure to crisis, and the relentless demand to perform under pressure. I walk beside paramedics navigating moral injury, self-doubt, burnout, or the emotional fallout of situations they had to walk away from while their minds stayed behind.
Whether the concern is anxiety, numbness, anger, or feeling out of step with your own life, we will work to re-establish meaning, reconnect agency, and build internal resilience without stoicism’s mask. If you are considering career transition, reassessing purpose, or trying to recover a sense of self beyond the uniform, I want to support you while you process grief, regain clarity, and move toward a life that supports you as much as you have supported others.